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Shadow of the Scorpion


CoverIan Cormac's Early Years!

Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and a vicious alien race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn't remember.

Cormac signs up with Earth Central Security and is sent out to help restore and maintain order on worlds devastated by the war. There he discovers that though the Prador remain as murderous as ever, they are not anywhere near as treacherous or dangerous as some of his fellow humans, some closer to him than he would like.

Amidst the ruins left by wartime genocides, Cormac will discover in himself a cold capacity for violence and learn some horrible truths about his own past while trying to stay alive on his course of vengeance.

Cover Art by Bob Eggleton


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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, December 2008

Distributed by Night Shade Books
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Printed In Canada

ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-139-3
ISBN-10: 1-59780-139-9

Shadow of the Scorpion © 2008 by Neal Asher
This edition of Shadow of the Scorpion © 2008
by Night Shade Books
Edited by Marty Halpern

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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For Caroline, as always

My thanks to Jason Williams and Jeremy Lassen for giving me this opportunity, to Bob Eggleton for the artwork and Marty Halpern for the copyediting, and to anyone else at Night Shade Books who made this possible.

Other books by Neal Asher:

Ian Cormac:
Gridlinked
The Line of Polity
Brass Man
Polity Agent
Line War
 
The Polity:
Prador Moon
The Skinner
The Voyage of the Sable Keech
Orbus (forthcoming)

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